Academy Membership

This academy membership is an online learning platform that uses both synchronous (live, in-person) and asynchronous (not live, watch on your own time), as well as independent and team-based learning strategies. The mission of the Rehab Learning Center is one of constant learning and improvement. We believe in a couple of famous quotes:

“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” Abigail Adams

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

We have designed this program to be a friendly yet challenging learning platform where you will travel along with like-minded individuals, all intending to be the best they can be.

There are many objectives of the academy membership. Ultimately, we want to surround ourselves with like-minded individuals who will push each other in a collegial and non-threatening way to improve for the betterment of those we care for.

The final objective is for you to be able to synthesize and make critical decisions on an injured athlete, from the moment they are injured until they return to their sport. In order to accomplish this goal, we present complex cases that build throughout the academy with the final objective of returning that athlete to their sport via decisions you make in the presented cases.

RLC Academy is intended for highly motivated, passionate, and driven clinicians and students wanting to continue to challenge themselves and grow. This is not an alternative or substitute for college or university programs/residencies, EMR courses, etc, but rather a supplement. While the last modules focus strongly on orthopedics and sports medicine, the first modules are applicable to other domains as well.

We believe this program has applicability to multiple rehabilitation professions (e.g., athletic training, physiotherapy, medicine, chiropractic, occupational therapy, strength and conditioning, fitness profession)

January 2021

11 months. It runs from January through November.

The first sessions consist of concepts including tissue injury & healing, basic biomechanical concepts, bioenergetics, clinical reasoning, and mentoring. The following sessions build on details of the examination of an injured athlete (both at the event and in the clinic), muscle performance assessments, return to sport assessments, and strength and conditioning and rehabilitation integration. The final sessions focus on completing previously introduced interactive cases, participant presentations, guest speakers working in sports medicine, and advice on interviews for residencies and employment.

There will be lectures to view and/or articles to read that could require anywhere from 2-4 hours/month. Every week to every other week, voluntary Zoom meetings will utilize an interactive learning strategy to cover that week’s material and/or hear from a guest speaker or someone working in athletic rehabilitation and conditioning.

We appreciate that life is busy, and things come up. We do not require participation. We, of course, strongly encourage taking full advantage of all the material that is offered to get the most out of the program. If you want to receive continuing education credit, you will need to complete the entire program, including quizzes.

Although Rehab Learning Center is a National Athletic Trainer’s Association Approved Provider, BOC AP# P10231, we have not sought NATA or APTA (or another body) continuing education credit approval. We have had our continuing education courses approved by various states in the USA. The content in the course modules should be enough information for you to submit for APTA approval if you wish.

Yes. Email a copy of your current student ID to Rehab Learning Center.

We appreciate and understand this request. We expect word-of-mouth advertising to be powerful for those enrolled in the program. We truly believe this program is unique and packed with great content.

Enrollment closes on January 31, 2021, at 10 pm (EST).

If you have even the slightest interest, we believe it would be worth your time to check the academy out and take the free lessons. You will need to sign up at the Rehab Learning Center to view these free lessons.

One of the many purposes of Rehab Learning Center Academy is to help grow the professions working with patients. We have benefitted from great mentoring to get where we are today. This program and the very low price are part of our paying it forward, so to speak. Additionally, in the final lessons, we provide the opportunity for any academy member to present. This could be a presentation you are doing for a meeting, for your clinical rotation, for an in-service, etc. It could be a ‘test drive’ for your real purpose of putting the presentation together. It simply could be an opportunity to get more practice doing a presentation in a ‘safe’ environment.

Doing a presentation is NOT a requirement to complete the academy. We simply offer it and other ‘perks’ (to be disclosed to members) as a reward for those working so hard and staying with the program.

Great question. There is no specific ‘type’ of an individual. We are looking for passionate, driven, hard-working individuals who are willing to challenge themselves and grow in their knowledge. We believe it will be important for all individuals participating in RLC Academy to be compassionate, willing to challenge their assumptions, and willing to work and contribute to team learning. We wish for everyone to grow as a result of our collaborative learning environment.

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